Banco de la Nación Boliviana was itself a short-lived institution — established in 1911 as a state-controlled successor to earlier private banking concessions, it was absorbed into the newly created Banco Central de Bolivia in 1928. Notes from its earliest year of operation, including this P#106, represent the full span of the bank's existence compressed into under two decades.
The American Bank Note Company held a long-running relationship with Bolivian issuers, and this series was engraved and printed at their Manhattan facility. ABNC's intaglio work for South American clients during this period was technically consistent, if commercially formulaic by their own standards.
Banco de la Nación Boliviana was itself a short-lived institution — established in 1911 as a state-controlled successor to earlier private banking concessions, it was absorbed into the newly created Banco Central de Bolivia in 1928. Notes from its earliest year of operation, including this P#106, represent the full span of the bank's existence compressed into under two decades.
The American Bank Note Company held a long-running relationship with Bolivian issuers, and this series was engraved and printed at their Manhattan facility. ABNC's intaglio work for South American clients during this period was technically consistent, if commercially formulaic by their own standards.